I bury the nomad years
hours in the earth
couldn’t exorcise these searing, pecking tongues
immune you say
yet venom strikes in strangest guises
as the viper in our eyes

tongue, throat, tongue… Tongues, lost in me
yours be the sharp and the vile
glide neath my skin
storm through my nerves

I bury the nomad years
hours in the earth
couldn’t exorcise these searing, pecking tongues
immune you say
yet venom strikes in strangest guises
as the viper in our eyes

tongue, throat, tongue
slayer of the word and stealer of vision

A monumental reign of terrors
throats slit up to stain the target
we’re food for the hounds of trauma,
prey to the crows of stress

No power left to retrieve my stolen language
filtered through the illiterate fingers of death

Flies let sickness be poured
from the cupped hands of bedlam

On account of their brightness
I made friends with the word and the moon
went with the tide and left for the sound
of dead instruments thrown out of tune

The red square patterns,
dragonrise and evenclaw
decoying from pandemonic symmetry

Let ring
a dissonant note in the music of the spheres the
streak of promise in the nuclear sky
these whipping black tongues
aching to lick me back to life

to inject their truths within me

Disco-queens in… Standing in the half light, wondering if you can
There stands the priest of sinners, consolation in his hands
Though he prays he won’t need it, he keeps it by his side
Waiting for the face up and the answer in her eyes
All while the music’s playing a backdrop serenade
There’s only one point of view
To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

Disco-queens in dancestep, moving face to face
All tangled up in neon don’t think it’s some disgrace
The blue western denim, the East Coats razor edge
The European fashion, the leathers and re-threads
All while the music’s playing a backdrop serenade
There’s only one point of view
To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

Will we sleep and sometimes love until the moon… As I look into your eyes I see the sunrise
The light behind your face helps me realise

Will we sleep and sometimes love until the moon shines
Maybe the next time I’ll be yours and maybe you’ll be mine

I don’t know if it’s even in your mind at all
It could be me
At this moment in time
Is it in your mind at all
It should be me, it could be me
Forever

Wandering through life will love come home to you
And the love you want forever, will they be true to you

Will we sleep and sometimes love until the moon shines
Maybe the next time I’ll be yours and maybe you’ll be mine

I don’t know if it’s even in your mind at all
It could be me
At this moment in time
Love’s indescribable
It should be me, it could be me
Forever

Easy, ready, willing, over time
Where does it stop where do you dare me to draw the line
You’ve got the body now you want my soul
Don’t even think about it say no go

I gave you everything
what’d you give to me
a pocket full of empty rings
with diamonds that can sing
the most that i could ever hope
is that you’d start to feel so real

Yeah
yeah
yeah

what i want is what you want
but what i want is more
i’m tired of the questions
am i… Yeah
yeah
yeah

I gave you everything
what’d you give to me
a pocket full of empty rings
with diamonds that can sing
the most that i could ever hope
is that you’d start to feel so real

Yeah
yeah
yeah

what i want is what you want
but what i want is more
i’m tired of the questions
am i left in scorn
the drugs are my addiction
she’s laying on the tiles of my floor

yeah
yeah
yeah

’cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my will
but what i want you can’t fucking kill

yeah
yeah
yeah

everyone is not as one
everyone’s the same
they’re asking for a moment
they’re looking out to blame
so am i independent
or am i just playing my own games

yeah
yeah
yeah

’cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my guilt
but when i can you just never will

yeah
yeah
yeah

yeah
yeah
yeah

’cause you are my faults
well you are my own
it’s your will in my guilt

yeah
yeah
yeah

I’ve sown and you’ve sown the seeds of youth
Time won’t and I don’t conceal the truth

So get up and fly away
Or forever be in doubt… You say that I’m lost
You got the word that I’m going down
Yea, it may be true
It’s like twenty-four tons of hard hitting headache
When you realize that you’re coming unglued

I’ve sown and you’ve sown the seeds of youth
Time won’t and I don’t conceal the truth

So get up and fly away
Or forever be in doubt
You know, Saviours never cry
You’re hot on the heels of hope and love
Dreams can never die
Tear down the walls you hide behind
There’s just one thing in your life
That you gotta do
You wanna break on through
Don’t be kind to the core
Easy to ignore
If your lips never move
You’re bound to lose the war

I know and you know
There’s no use
Trying to hold back the years
Making a career out of hiding the truth
A new day is born
You need to wake the dying
The hand that it’s in is yours

Mmm, teacher’s pride (pa dum pa dum)
I wanna be teacher’s pride (pa dum pa dum)
I wanna be dated, paraded
The one most likely at your side
(Ya got a burnin’, yearnin’ to learn) …

Refrain:
I wanna learn all your lips can teach me
One kiss will do at the start (Are you really?)
I’m sure with a little homework
I’ll graduate to your heart (To your heart)…

Teacher’s pet (pa dum pa dum)
I wanna be teacher’s pet (pa dum pa dum)
I wanna take home a diploma and show ma
That you love me too (That you love me too)
So I can be teacher’s pet
Long after school is through …

(Oh, teacher’s pet) Mmm, mmm
(You wanna be teacher’s pet) Ahh, ahh
(You wanna be huddled and cuddled
As close to him as you can get)…
(Repeat refrain & 4th stanza)

Teacher’s pet (You love the teacher)
I wanna be teacher’s pet ( pa dum pa dum)
I wanna take home a diploma and show ma
That you love me too (wow!)
So I can be teacher’s pet (Yeah)
Long after school is through
(Teacher, teacher, she loves you!) …

We live together separately
We don’t want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there’s an emptiness
An absence of the heart

How did we lose it, why did this happen
When did we take it all for granted
We sit… I write you letters, but I don’t send them
I just can’t figure out how to end them
I try to reach you, you’re right beside me
There’s something missin’ and we can’t deny that

We live together separately
We don’t want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there’s an emptiness
An absence of the heart

How did we lose it, why did this happen
When did we take it all for granted
We sit in silence, inside we’re cryin’
How can we keep our love from dyin’

We live together separately
We don’t want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there’s an emptiness
An absence of the heart

We live together separately
We don’t want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there’s an emptiness
An absence of the heart

We live together separately
We don’t want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there’s an emptiness
An absence of the heart

I write you letters, but I don’t send them

Bridge w/ changing ad libs
Come on come on
That’s just the way it is
Things’ll never be the same
That’s just the way it is
aww yeah
Repeat

-2-
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let’s erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they’ll be acting right
’cause both black and white is smokin’ crack tonight
and only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain’t ready, to see a black President, uhh
It ain’t a secret don’t conceal the fact
the penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks
But some things will never change
try to show another way but you stayin’ in the dope game
Now tell me what’s a mother to do
bein’ real don’t appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
„I made a G today” But you made it in a sleazy way
sellin’ crack to the kid. ” I gotta get paid,”
Well hey, well that’s the way it is

Bridge

Talking:
We gotta make a change…
It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes.
Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live
and let’s change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.

-3-
And still I see no changes can’t a brother get a little peace
It’s war on the streets & the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
And I ain’t never did a crime I ain’t have to do
But now I’m back with the blacks givin’ it back to you
Don’t let ‘em jack you up, back you up,
crack you up and pimp slap you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can’t touch this
I don’t trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That’s the sound of my tool you say it ain’t cool
my mama didn’t raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
& I never get to lay back
‘Cause I always got to worry ’bout the pay backs
some buck that I roughed up way back
comin’ back after all these years
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that’s the way it is uhh

Bridge ’til fade

Didn’t know you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet nobody ever told you that you
would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
You would be jammin’ and jammin’ and jammin’, jam on

They want us to join their fighting
But our answer today
Is to let all our worries
Like the breeze through our fingers slip away
Peace has come to Zimbabwe
Third World’s right on the one
Now’s the time for celebration
‘Cause we’ve only just begun

Didn’t know that you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Bet you nobody ever told you that you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
You would be jammin’ and jammin’ and jammin’, jam on
Bet you nobody ever told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I know nobody told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
We’re jammin’, jammin’, jammin’, jam on

You ask me am I happy
Well as matter of fact
I can say that I’m ecstatic
‘Cause we all just made a pact
We’ve agreed to get together
Joined as children in Jah
When you’re moving in the positive
Your destination is the brightest star

You didn’t know that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet you nobody ever told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Don’t you stop the music, oh no,
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Na, na na…
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Nobody told you Oh, Oh, Oh, you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet you if someone approached you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
yesterday to tell you that you would be jammin’ you would not
believe it because you never thought that you would be jammin’
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
jammin’ ’til the break of dawn
Oh, Oh, Oh, You may as well believe what you are feeling
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
because you feel your body jammin’
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
Oh, Oh, you would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s
of the master blaster jammin’)

This is the warning
Enemies are waiting

Open the window
Jump on the roof
Danger can come
From everywhere
My skin is damp, I’m shivering
Am I scared or am I cold
The tension rises

You’ve got to survive
Stick it in your mind
It’s… I wanna survive…
This is the warning
Principles are dead
Morality can wait
You’ve got to survive in this jungle
Stick it in your mind

This is the warning
Enemies are waiting

Open the window
Jump on the roof
Danger can come
From everywhere
My skin is damp, I’m shivering
Am I scared or am I cold
The tension rises

You’ve got to survive
Stick it in your mind
It’s your Leitmotiv

This is an emergency